French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen says she believes that a large European nationalist force is "necessary" to face the new German coalition. New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's incoming coalition of his Social Democrats, ecologist Greens and liberal FDP have declared that it was their "task promote and advance this sovereign Europe". Le Pen was speaking after leaders of European far-right and nationalist parties discussed joint votes on sovereignty and immigration issues in the European Parliament but stopped short of striking a formal alliance at a conference in Warsaw. SOUNDBITES